Yesterday we had clients IT manager call us. A user had received an email on their personal email and then forwarded it to their work email, and subsequently opened it… the result was that their main file server, and multiple NAS devices were all encrypted with Cryptolocker. Unfortunately this also encrypted their StorageCraft ShadowProtect backup images which took … [Read more...]

This is just gold. I highly suggest that this video is mandatory watching for all my clients, friends, parents, relatives, anyone that uses a computer. These type of scammers have been calling people here in Australia now for quite a few years, but only recently have they spread to other regions of the globe. It all starts with a phone call you get on your home … [Read more...]

Microsoft this week announced the release of a free antimalware tool called the Microsoft Safety Scanner. The tool – available here is designed to be downloaded and run on a potentially infected computer and it will run a scan for all known malware, virus, or trojan programs. It will remove anything it finds. It’s a 70MB download and runs on Windows XP SP3 and … [Read more...]

Given the similarity of naming of these two products, there’s been a few people thinking that they might be able to install Microsoft Security Essentials on their new SBS 2011 Essentials server. Sadly – Microsoft Security Essentials is a desktop only Antimalware solution, and cannot be installed on servers. Microsoft show the supported operating systems here. … [Read more...]

Trend this last week silently released another patch for WFBS 7.0 to combat issues people are seeing in the real world. The patch is cumulative of the previous public released hotfixes and supersedes the 1370 patch (Trend WFBS 7.0 – Patch 1370 Now Available) released in December. I found out about the patch via the WFBS Security Console. This is a new feature in … [Read more...]